You heard that this morning when you went to Church.
Right?
It really struck home…and sort of worked into something that occurred to me earlier in the week: the laws of God are not a ban on fun, but just ten simple rules (boiled down to two by Our Lord) for a sane life. The precepts of the Lord really do give joy to the heart. Think about it. If everyone on Earth just agreed to abide by the Ten Commandments for one week – just seven, little days – think about what a wonderful week that would be? No lies. No murder. No adultery/fornication. No theft. No wrath or jealousy. It would be a week of total chill…and it would cost us nothing. Nobody would lose a thing by it. If we would obey the precepts of the Lord, we’d be living pretty joyfully.
And that’s why the world today is held up by a scaffold of lies. It is all a bunch of drivel designed to really get to one thing – that people don’t have joy in their lives. And that just tells you who the author of the modern world is right there.
Here is Nevada we are inundated with pro-abortion ads. The most sick and twisted is teenage-looking girls (I’m sure they’re over 18 for legal purposes but clearly chosen to look 15-ish) begging us to save their right to an abortion. “Think about us”, they say. We have to make sure they can get an abortion…we have to make sure, that is, they can get their lives ruined as early as possible but at least scrape away the most inconvenient result (and, of course, protect the older men who abuse them…can’t forget that: Question 6 here in Nevada legalizes abortion for minors without parental consent…because we must ensure the degenerates can dispose of the strongest evidence against them). What strikes you about it – aside from revulsion – is how very sad it is. That we’ve clearly got girls of a very young age who are resigned to being sexually used and tossed aside…and abort that kid so you can have your career in a cubicle farm.
If they were just working on obeying the precepts of the Lord, of course, they’d look forward to marriage to a man who will promise and kids growing up and all that normal, sane, human stuff. Can’t have that, can we?
On and on like that. Young boys are also taught to ruin themselves – that their relationship goal isn’t to make a manly promise to a woman, but to skip from one to another because that “respects” a woman’s independence. This has had the effect of making more and more young men have contempt for women…to see them as objects. And irritating objects at that. Useful for only one thing so why put up with her outside of the bedroom? It is causing a real crisis in manhood…men aren’t geared to be like that and talking them into being pigs is causing psychic breakdown in the men as well.
There was a reason we used to stamp on people who lived badly and lied – and it wasn’t because we were anti-fun. It was because we had a little bit of common sense. We were a mature, sensible people – we didn’t believe childish notions about having one’s cake and eating it too. We knew that life was a series of trade offs and that if we wanted a bit of real happiness and prosperity then we had to ensure at least a basic level of morality – that we had a least a little bit of obeying the precepts of the Lord, even if a lot of people did cut corners on that when they could.
We have to get back to that.
It will be difficult.
But it will be worth it.
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I say a prayer every morning that dovetails with your post. It goes something like this:
And I know that God hears me and honors me with his presence in my life because I feel it every day in so many ways. AND THAT DOES GIVE ME JOY!
While we’re on the Bible, let me share my H.E.A.R. Journal entry for last week.
H.E.A.R. Journal week 35
2 Peter: 1-3
Date: September 27, 2024
Title: 5th Generation Warfare
Highlight
1But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves. 2Many will follow their depraved conduct and will bring the way of truth into disrepute. 3In their greed these teachers will exploit you with fabricated stories.
Explain
We’re seeing this phenomenon play out in real time in our modern society. They’ve even coined a name for it: Gaslighting (psychological manipulation of a person usually over an extended period of time that causes the victim to question the validity of their own thoughts, perception of reality, or memories and typically leads to confusion, loss of confidence and self-esteem, uncertainty of one’s emotional or mental stability, and a dependency on the perpetrator) has become so commonplace among people in positions of public trust, whether in media, education, business, or government, that it’s nearly impossible to know what to believe. Others have referred to it as Psyops or Fifth Generation Warfare. Whatever you call it, it’s a massive effort to misinform and brainwash the masses.
Application
To quote Ecclesiastes 1:9 – “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.” Just as in ancient times, faith in God is the best tool, maybe the ONLY tool, for combating false prophets.
Response
The ability to discern truth from lies so that my decisions and choices are accurately informed is something I pray for every day, and there is not a shadow of doubt in my mind that this is a prayer that God hears and answers – every day.
Very nice prayer Spook. In my quiet times of reflection, I ask God and the Holy Spirit to bring me peace, wisdom, courage, strength, and patience so that I may be closer to His heart and worthy of His presence in my life.
Young boys are also taught to ruin themselves
I read an article this weekend that speaks to the decline of interpersonal relationships in our younger generations and it is a society killer unless it is resolved.
Young men are lonelier as a result. Those ages 18 to 30 spent 18% more time alone last year—an average of 6.6 nonsleeping hours—than in 2019, according to Pardue’s analysis of American Time Use Survey data. That is 22% more alone time than reported by women in the same age range.
Our culture does not place a lot of value on Fatherhood, or men for that matter. The “toxic masculinity” narrative is wholly destructive … men need to be men sometimes and that’s never toxic. Additionally, this abortion agenda is just another indirect attack on men as they are never included in the dialogue, as if the Father has ZERO say on the destruction of their child. All people need purpose in life, particularly men, and in a culture that doesn’t value family, or men, or Motherhood, our culture and way of life will disappear.
https://archive.is/N0YE7#selection-2559.0-2559.281
I grew up with brothers and lots of male cousins, and I remember them always in groups, playing elaborate games of explorer or war or building things (usually to tear them down) as well as working together to herd cows, collect eggs and do other chores. Now I see males of most ages huddled over phones, involved in distant “relationships” defined by a few digital characters on a screen.
I remember boys learning, sometimes the hard way, how to relate to girls—getting turned down for dates, for example, and learning better ways to approach girls. Now it’s a simple click on a profile online and what might pass for getting to know someone before “hooking up” for an unsatisfying short term experience. This leaves women stranded, without real men in their lives who know how to establish real relationships.
It’s a two way street. The 1970’s feminist movement has been good and bad. Turns out “bringing home the bacon and frying it up in pan” has negative consequences too.
As a woman denied work I was very qualified for, such as driving a water truck on a construction site at about ten times what I was making in my
approved-for-women job, I appreciated the movement toward expanding job opportunities. It is good that we now have more women doctors and lawyers and so on—as long as they are not considered doctors and lawyers just because they are women and there is a quota. I was old enough when the feminist movement got started to kind of pick and choose among the ideas it represented, and see the ones that had less to do with fairness to women and more to do with grasping for political power.
I’ve also got the experience to see the difference in men over the decades, and the erosion of masculinity and, as a woman, I also attribute a lot of the hostility and hair-on-fire antagonism of so many women these days as being related to being isolated from what used to be the emotional mooring of man-woman relationships and having families.
Kind of off-topic, although one hopes that the joy of the Lord touches our elected representatives as the Southeast begins to pick up the pieces (quite literally) from Hurricane Helene.
Hat-tip Jeff Childers, Coffee & Covid.
There’s a common, vulgar term to describe our elected representatives – of both parties: it’s abbreviated POS!
I came to the blog to post this exact excerpt from the same column. Great minds, etc……
The flood damage in my little community in Florida was limited to property damage in lower-lying locations, such as street-level homes. We were lucky. The wind was high for Florida (another day ending in “Y” for Wyoming) and I had a couple of papaya trees tipped over, but we were on the fringes of the storm, and I have been following the flooding reports.
The article linked by Spook has details of communities isolated and unreachable, and it reminded me of the massive flooding in 2013 that started near my Colorado home. Big Thompson Canyon has the main road to the town of Estes Park and I have friends and family with homes in the canyon. One friend watched her home drop into the raging river, and another had his hand on the neck of his mule, reaching for the halter to lead the mule and a horse to higher ground when the ground beneath the animals gave way and he watched them being swept away. He and his wife lost their home and business to the flood. All of these people had to be airlifted out to safety, and sheltered with me till they could get to other housing. My family stayed with me for about three months until they could go home, to one of the few houses left standing just because of where it was located on the canyon wall, because it took that long to get the road rebuilt enough to handle limited local traffic. They had been so isolated once the power went out they had no idea that the flood was over 100 miles long and probably at least 50 miles wide, and were amazed to sit in front of my TV to see photos and videos of stranded animals and houses floating away as far away as Nebraska, though the most eastern locations had time for some people to just call moving vans and remove all their furniture before the water got to them.
I’ve seen up close and personal the terrifying effects of flooding and the impact it has on people. I’m sure these pockets of survivors can be airlifted out, but they will probably not have homes to return to, or even land remaining where they can rebuild, and that is in the future after roads are rebuilt. On a drive to a memorial service a few hours from me, a few years ago, for a relative who was killed in a boating accident in a river with high water due to flooding, a friend told me about being in the Big Thompson flood back in the late 70s, where he grasped an older neighbor around his chest and held onto him as they were swept downstream, fighting to keep them vertical as they were battered by debris. The neighbor died during this experience, and my friend still suffers from the injuries he received.
Well, THIS brightened my day.
We still have the beat the margin of cheating, but I’m feeling better about the outcome on November 5th.
But this doesn’t show the number of dead Republicans now voting Democrat
Funny how Democrats never accuse Republicans of cheating. They just accuse Republicans of disenfranchising dead people.
LOL !!!
Thousands of port workers are poised strike tonight at midnight. That has the great potential to further wreck our rather delicate economy causing more harm to people ill equipped to handle yet more bad news, especially when just starting recovering from hurricane Helene. Guessing the left will blame it on Trump, you know, just for being – Trump.